Fans of the Seinfeld Show may remember Elaine’s dilemma when her favorite form of birth control was being discontinued, leading to her and other characters’ decision to stockpile her brand and to wonder whether her dates were “sponge-worthy.” If you read the headlines last week about changes to the Affordable Care Act mandates, you may have thought that fiction had become fact as groups such as Planned Parenthood and NARAL turned on the hyperbolic sirens claiming the end of birth control was near. Fake news personified.

The shrill cries of abortion advocates, calling for the Supreme Court to strike down this law, have rung throughout the media. They claim this case, Whole Woman’s Health vs. Hellerstadt, if decided against them, will deprive women of access to healthcare and deny poor women their basic “right” to an abortion.